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Gee, I thought COBOL was supposed to be self-documenting. <evil-g>
Seriously, this question is going to come up a lot in the next few years. A lot of the code that's going to break in 2000 is COBOL.
Mike -dot- huber -at- software -dot- rockwell -dot- com
Grammar and spelling are tools to be used in moderation.
-----Original Message-----
From: jerolynn cochrane [SMTP:cochrane -at- CARIBSURF -dot- COM]
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 1997 7:08 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: COBOL Translations?
Hello,
I'm an ex-lurker and I'm back! And glad to be.
I've been asked to quote on a job which is documenting a 4-year old COBOL
application which has since been customized.
The burning question is:
Do any tools exist to convert COBOL code to some form of documentation, or
to extract some of the useful code?
The other question is:
Can you use the number of lines of code (100,000 for this one) as a factor
in estimating the time required to do the job? If you can, can I? Any
guidelines on this one?
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